Criminalizing squatters is likely to cost £790 million and deep cuts to legal aid won’t even cover half of that, warns Rueben Taylor.
Filed in: Housing Human Rights Law
Housing
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Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes ‘a most heinous practice’
So why do foreign governments continue to turn a blind eye? wonders Noreen Sadik.
- Noreen Sadik
- March 7, 2012
- 1
A harsh winter for China’s discontented
Complainants against abuses by Chinese authorities are forced to sleep rough in sub-zero temperatures and those that help them are harassed by police, reports Shuang Gao.
Filed in: China Housing Human Rights Resistance
- Shuang Gao
- December 21, 2011
- 0
Living beside your oppressor: a Palestinian reality
Adriano Mérola Marotta visits Sheikh Jarrah to meet families daily confronted by settler and state violence.
Filed in: Housing Human Rights Israel Middle East Palestine
- Adriano Mérola Marotta
- November 7, 2011
- 7
Back-door squatting law is a democracy bypass
The government is ignoring the ‘96 per cent’ to rush through anti-squatting legislation that preys on society’s most vulnerable, says Rueben Taylor.
Filed in: Housing Resistance United Kingdom
- Rueben Taylor
- November 3, 2011
- 0
Living in a tent: homeless and friendless in Israel
Considered one of Israel’s few ‘mixed’ cities, Jaffa’s Arab population is facing eviction, police brutality and an unsettled future. Noreen Sadik reports.
Filed in: Housing Israel Middle East Politics
- Noreen Sadik
- November 2, 2011
- 0
A tsunami of demolitions
Africa’s squatters are up against ruthless state power. Andrew Meldrum reports on Harare and beyond.
- Andrew Meldrum
- January 1, 2006
- 0
Snapshots from shantytown
A photo essay of squatter life.
Filed in: Cities Housing Photography Poverty Thailand
- Richard Swift
- January 1, 2006
- 0
The lease on life
Richard Swift meets the determined squatters of Bangkok who don’t know the meaning of the word eviction.
Filed in: Aids Catholicism Cities Housing
- Richard Swift
- January 1, 2006
- 0
Architects of our futures
Robert Neuwirth tells what he learned from his two years of living with squatters on three continents.
- Robert Neuwirth
- January 1, 2006
- 0
Words on the street from a globetrotters' phrasebook
- January 1, 2006
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